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In the Shelter of the Pine - A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan (Hardcover)
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In the Shelter of the Pine - A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan (Hardcover)
Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
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In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ogimachi Machiko
composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for
whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko
assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to
the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial
court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and
have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth
to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she
recalled it all-from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and
his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her
apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is
the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early
modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong
narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to
Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on
everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role
of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The
Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic
continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the
means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and
revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a
distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese
literature available in English.
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